After two years of research and an investment of a substantial amount of money, Coast-to-Coast Company (CC) develops a new product that it hopes will produce substantial profits. CC learns that a competitor, National Sales, Inc., has made and begun to sell a nearly identical product. CC learns from a reliable source that National paid a CC employee to obtain the plans for CC's product when it was in development. What legal recourse does CC have against National?
What will be an ideal response?
In terms of legal recourse against National, CC might base a civil suit on charges of conversion and trespass to personal property. Conversion is any act depriving an owner of personal property without that owner's permission and without just cause. Conversion is the civil side of crimes related to theft. When conversion occurs, trespass to personal property usually occurs as well. If the initial taking of the property was unlawful, there is trespass; retention of that property is conversion. CC might have a claim for wrongful interference with a contractual relationship for inducing the CC employee to break his or her employment contract with CC by selling company secrets.
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